Hi guys,
I need to setup a VPN connection from a mandrake 8.2 box and a Win98 client running SSH Sentinel. Unfortunately I have been having a rather rough time… I’ve read a few docs but unfortunately not all of it is clear. Recently I came across this very user friendly document:
This document is ideal because it provides step by step instructions from downloading the source to the final stages (plus the PDF format is a nice look). The downside is that it’s for an older version of Red Hat. I’ve actually thought about getting Red Hat as a last resort, but maybe you guys can enlighten me as I’d like to stay with Mandrake as much as possible…
Refering to that PDF link above, I substituted the first two chapters for
# Urpmi freeswan
and
downloading the x509 patch from
On 3.2 it says to copy the cacert.pem to /etc/ipsec.d/cacerts/<filename>. But since there is no /etc/ipsec.d in mdk 8.2, I copied the file to /usr/lib/ipsec. (I also noticed in 8.2 there is /etc/freeswan directory, but that only has the ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets file.) I also noticed that when they list /usr/share/ssl etc, it should be /usr/lib/ssl and so forth.
Finally I try to setup the keys/certs with SSH sentinel. The request goes fine, the signing appears fine, but when I try to import the final signed cert, SSH doesn’t seem to trust it.
Can you guys see where I might be screwing up? Also, can you recommend a good step-by-step newbie how to that explains this mdk8.2/ssh sentinel setup that I am trying to accomplish?
Thanks in advance!
I need to setup a VPN connection from a mandrake 8.2 box and a Win98 client running SSH Sentinel. Unfortunately I have been having a rather rough time… I’ve read a few docs but unfortunately not all of it is clear. Recently I came across this very user friendly document:
This document is ideal because it provides step by step instructions from downloading the source to the final stages (plus the PDF format is a nice look). The downside is that it’s for an older version of Red Hat. I’ve actually thought about getting Red Hat as a last resort, but maybe you guys can enlighten me as I’d like to stay with Mandrake as much as possible…
Refering to that PDF link above, I substituted the first two chapters for
# Urpmi freeswan
and
downloading the x509 patch from
On 3.2 it says to copy the cacert.pem to /etc/ipsec.d/cacerts/<filename>. But since there is no /etc/ipsec.d in mdk 8.2, I copied the file to /usr/lib/ipsec. (I also noticed in 8.2 there is /etc/freeswan directory, but that only has the ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets file.) I also noticed that when they list /usr/share/ssl etc, it should be /usr/lib/ssl and so forth.
Finally I try to setup the keys/certs with SSH sentinel. The request goes fine, the signing appears fine, but when I try to import the final signed cert, SSH doesn’t seem to trust it.
Can you guys see where I might be screwing up? Also, can you recommend a good step-by-step newbie how to that explains this mdk8.2/ssh sentinel setup that I am trying to accomplish?
Thanks in advance!